No brain is healthy, and no brain can effectively cope with stress,
unless it is testosterone healthy. We currently have well over
2000 visits per month for T replacement, and a markedly increased
ability to handle stress is almost a universal effect..

melissa cox

12/19/12

Shalmali I could not disagree with you more. As a Westerner living in Mumbai, I find Indians to be quite stressed,
facing tremendous famillial and economic pressures, alll while being bombarded daily with relentless noise, filth
and pollution. Here in India is where I sense underlying menace (and misogyny) on a daily basis not in the US. You
are viewing India through the lens of nostalgia and contributing to the Romantic notion that in less developed
countries folks lead simpler lives. Not so!.

Phyllis K Stein, PhD

12/19/12

Two thoughts. First
I agree with
Melissa, I have not
experienced India or
Indians as a low
stress environment
BUT, in traditional
Hindu culture there
is less of a belief
that it SHOULD be
different or that
making it different
is up to us, and
that leads to
greater external
acceptance of what
IS, which would be
necessary or
everyone there would
go insane.
Here, I agree there
is a lot of
environmental stress
in many people's
lives, but also
there is a belief
that if we do enough
we will become good
enough or our kids
will, and that our
worth depends on it.
So we professionals
work hard, make work
or success more
important than being
kind to ourselves
and buy into
impossible goals,
which at this point
could even include
reading all of the
e-mail that arrives
in a day. For women
it can include
somehow being a
parent, a partner
and a Nobel prize
winner and staying
fit and not needing
to sleep. Getting
that we are already
good enough, already
worthy takes a lot
of the pressure off.
So does making
taking care of
ourselves in terms
of a balanced life,
even if someone else
is unhappy about it,
the highest
priority. If we all
did that (fat
chance!), everyone
around us would get
permission to do it
too..

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